Competition entry: Orchid Perfection
Orchid Perfection by Brian Narveson
2021 May Competition - A Prints
33 points - Hon. Mention
End of Year: Hon. Mention
Judges' comments:
Good focus; lighting done very well; potential distractions eliminated; stem nicely faded out
Maker's notes:

This image was shot in the La Crosse Floral Greenhouse during the club shoot.  My Canon 7D Mark ii was mounted on a tripod with my 18-135 mm Canon zoom set to 42 mm.  Camera was in aperture priority mode set to f/29 to get enough depth of field for the flower.  A second variable output battery operated LED light was set a camera right level with the flower about 6 inches away.   A camera mounted ring light was on the lens set to provide some left side lighting.  Camera was set to ISO-400 with resulted in a shutter speed of 1/4 second.  In order to the background as dark as I wanted, I dialed in an exposure bias of -1.3/f.  Post processing was done in Lightroom and Photoshop CC.